[rktman]

Well, did they get due process or was there a constitutional crisis first?

[Jim W N]

What a story. Thanks for posting this. A time when Americans loved America.

Would’ve been better if all of the prisoners were sentenced to something short of death.

[ckilmer]

imho WWII is still murdering the USA to this day.

[PGR88]

The leader of the team, George Dasch, bribed the suspicious Cullen, and he accepted the money, promising to keep quiet. However, as soon as he passed safely back into the fog, he sprinted the two miles back to the Coast Guard station and informed his superiors of his discovery.

I wouldn't call that a "bribe" - rather, a smart ruse by Cullen to avoid being murdered on the spot, and get away to expose the plot.

[RandallFlagg]

Well, at least the Germans didn’t bomb Pearl Harbor. So there’s that.

[Vision]

Today’s Democrats would make them District judges.

[coloradan]

Good thing Judge Boasberg wasn’t around to order the immediate release of all captured saboteurs.

[A strike]

“On July 15, Dasch called the FBI in New York but they failed to take his claims seriously, so he decided to travel to FBI headquarters in Washington DC .”

[AnAmericanMother]

A longer account, from the late, great "American Heritage" magazine:

The Spies Who Came In From the Sea

One of the really disappointing things about the AH Archive, useful as it is, is that it does not include the copious full color illustrations of the original.

I learned to read from the old hard back American Heritage magazines. Still have an (almost) complete set.